Report: Asthmatic black children more likely to return to hospital

Children's Hospital study says readmission rates twice as high

12:42 PM,
Feb. 3, 2014

Children?s Hospital Medical Center

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The Enquirer

African-American children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma - a disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial and social hardships, researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center conclude in a new study.

The findings show a path to cut health costs, rather than paying for the re-admissions, by asking doctors and community health workers to find a home delivery system of anti-asthma medications instead of forcing patients' families to try and find find transportation to a pharmacy.